Microsoft announced two related updates for Visual Studio: support for bringing your own model (BYOM) to Copilot Chat and general availability of the Model Context Protocol (MCP) client in the IDE.

Microsoft has released GPT-5.1 in Microsoft Copilot Studio, providing U.S. customers in early release cycle Power Platform environments with access to the newest experimental model. The announcement ...

Microsoft is updating how you build Visual Studio extensions, with new APIs and the ability to run extensions outside of the Visual Studio process. Notwithstanding the immense popularity of the Visual ...

Microsoft has shared its current roadmap for AI in Visual Studio. Things that it's working on include model auto mode and adding new models to Chat. Microsoft has shared a roadmap for AI in its IDE, ...

Microsoft has released a preview of Visual Studio 2026, the first major version update since 2021, promising deeper AI integration and a new look and feel.… Visual Studio is the second most popular ...

Visual Studio Code now has a new auto AI model selector that favors Claude 4 over GPT-5. Visual Studio Code now has a new auto AI model selector that favors Claude 4 over GPT-5. is a senior editor and ...

The first preview release of Visual Studio 2026 has arrived. As you might expect from a new Microsoft product, the big selling point is more AI integration, but there are some great performance ...